From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove detach_state from udev's wait_for_sysfs
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:24:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050620182448.GA25786@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050619230126.GA7496@vrfy.org>
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:21:46PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 20, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > > Can you clarify this?
> > > udev releases >= 059 will require a kernel >= 2.6.12?
> > Yes, would that be a problem?
> Yes, thinking again about this I think it could be very annoying: users
> would need to upgrade both the kernel and udev at the same time, but it
> would not be possible because the udev package should abort the
> installation if an old kernel is detected. Users would need to upgrade
> the kernel, reboot to a partially working system and then upgrade udev.
No, this doesn't "break" support on older kernels, just makes new
device discover a little slow. It will all still work just fine. So a
user can upgrade udev, and then their kernel.
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-20 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-19 23:01 remove detach_state from udev's wait_for_sysfs Kay Sievers
2005-06-20 1:19 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2005-06-20 12:15 ` Kay Sievers
2005-06-20 16:46 ` Greg KH
2005-06-20 17:45 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-20 18:03 ` Greg KH
2005-06-20 18:21 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-06-20 18:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-20 18:30 ` Marco d'Itri
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